Billy Mitchell

My last ski vacation this season ended a few weeks ago in Valdez, where we had some marginal weather but also a few good days. First off, Jason Kwiatkowski, Tory Dugan and I skied from the shoulder of 7601. We should have gone to the top but had spent the first half of the day skiing elsewhere and were kinda tired. Below is Jason dropping in on a measured angle of 52 degrees. Then a bit of stormy weather kept us out of the high peaks, but on the next nice day we went to ski The Shovel, which is the pointy spire in the photo below. The run goes down the bowl from the summit, then out of sight behind the ridge, 3000+ feet to the road below enjoying Super deep powder. It can be seen prominently from 46 mile on the Richardson.
Tory with the valley below...
Jason...
Tobias Schwower below in the yellow jacket

Directly above Toby's head is a northish facing line we skied off a sub peak of Billy Mitchell...
Jason again...
Brian Totten via splitboard....
ssSince word on the street was that Billy Mitchell hadn't been skied from the true summit, Jason, Toby, Brian and I went went and did that the next day, skiing some surprisingly good powder right off the top, and down the NE ridge, about 6000' to the road below.

My skis on the summit...

Toby skiing from the true summit, with the northern rampart of Billy Mitchell and the Tiekel River valley behind.
A decent number of storm days kept us off the peaks, so we kept our sanity by creating a giant stack of firewood next to Tory's cabin: